GUNS AND ROSES

aking off from a documentary he made 20 years ago, Kabir Khan’s The Forgotten Army: Azaadi Ke Liye is a five-episode web-series streamed on Amazon Prime from January 2020. It’s an ode to the ‘forgotten’ soldiers of the Netaji Subhash Chandra-led Indian National Army, who sought to overthrow the British government after World War II. The lesser known story of the Rani of Jhansi regiment, the first female infantry in the world, is another pillar of the narrative. While at its core, The Forgotten Army is the love story of Colonel Surinder Sodhi (Sunny Kaushal) and Maya Srinivasan (Sharvari) in times of war, it also raises questions about identity, independence and the idea of motherland… Shot across Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and also Mumbai… the series, say Sunny and Sharvari, is not about winning or losing. Rather it’s about investing in what you believe in – be it love or